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Site-Neutral Payments Would Lower Private Health Costs, Encourage Competition
Read moreThe Health Savers Initiative recently published “ Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments,” which examines the market...
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Comments on Proposed IDR Rule
Read moreOn February 9, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein submitted comments on the...
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Treasury Confirms $39 Billion Deficit in January
Read moreThe Treasury Department released its latest Monthly Treasury Statement today, confirming that the United States borrowed $39 billion in the month of...
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BCBSA Offers Options to Reduce Health Care Costs
Read moreRecently, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) released a plan to lower health care costs that focuses primarily on reducing the high prices...
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CBO Reports $459 Billion Deficit for the First 4 Months of the Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $459 billion in the first four months of fiscal year 2023, including $38 billion in January, according to the latest...
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Tax Policy Center Estimates Medicare Revenue Proposals
Read moreThe Tax Policy Center (TPC) recently published a report on “ Options for Increasing Medicare Revenues.” This report identifies 12 options to increase...
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Biden IDR Plan Will Cost More than Advertised
Read moreLast month, the Biden Administration put forward a proposed rule to unilaterally expand the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program for student debt. In...
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Marc Goldwein on You Don't Have to Yell Podcast Discussing Debt Ceiling
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the " You Don't Have to...
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Net Interest Payments Topped $475 Billion in FY 2022
Read moreOne of the main reasons to be concerned about our high and rising national debt is the growing size of interest payments needed to service it. In...
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Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023 Introduced in the Senate
Read moreLast week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and a bipartisan group of nine additional senators reintroduced the Prevent...
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White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare
Read moreWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates today described commissions to save the Social Security and Medicare programs from insolvency as a “death panel...
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Principles for Social Security Reform
Read moreSocial Security will be insolvent in as little as a decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the combined trust funds’ reserves will be...